The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Take heednever take advantage of the things you neednever let yourself be overcome by greedwalk the straight and narrow and read more

Take heednever take advantage of the things you neednever let yourself be overcome by greedwalk the straight and narrow and you shall succeed.

Action makes more fortune than caution

Action makes more fortune than caution

I passed by the row of meats at the Safeway
and was afraid to buy
Wall St Journal reporter on read more

I passed by the row of meats at the Safeway
and was afraid to buy
Wall St Journal reporter on the Diane Rehm Show.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the read more

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and read more

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am read more

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned of the first time.